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Himalayan Glacial-Lake Floods Could Be 15x Bigger Than Models Assume
Researchers modeling a transboundary basin on the Tibet–Nepal border found that worst-case glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) could be catastrophically larger
IBM's next mainframe chip runs Arm and IBM Z code natively on the same cores
IBM used the Hot Chips conference to unveil a mainframe processor that can execute both Arm and IBM Z (or LinuxONE) instruction sets natively, the first silicon
Mold Linker Hits Up to 112x Faster Than GNU ld by Parallelizing Every Pass
Linking—the build step that stitches compiled object files into a final executable or shared library—remains a stubborn bottleneck in the edit-compile-debug loo
Nvidia in $13B talks to buy Hugging Face, testing open-source neutrality
Despite framing suggesting a done deal, Nvidia and Hugging Face have only held acquisition talks in recent weeks, with a potential valuation north of $13 billio
Offline OpenStreetMap App CoMaps Guided Earthquake Rescuers in Signal-Dead Venezuela
CoMaps, a non-commercial, fully open-source navigation app built on OpenStreetMap data, proved its worth during the Venezuela earthquake response by working ent
Stripe acquires Clerky, the legal-paperwork platform behind 23% of SV seed rounds
Stripe has agreed to acquire Clerky, an online service that handles routine legal paperwork for startups — incorporation documents, equity issuance, and financi
The Harness Is the Thing: Why Your Agent Rig Matters More Than the Model
A solo developer argues that the decisive tool in agentic coding is no longer the model but the harness — the shared scaffolding of skills, an AGENTS.md file, a
"Twitter Viewer" pitches no-login X browsing, search, and video ripping in one page
The submitted link isn't reporting — it's the marketing landing page for twitterwebviewer.com, a third-party service that offers to view public X (formerly Twit
Why NYC's nyc.gov/{initiative} Short Links Are Quietly Good Civic Design
New York political figure Zohran Mamdani ends his social media announcement videos with a consistent, human-readable URL pattern: nyc.gov/{initiative}. Each cli
A Kantian Read of Bieber's 'Sorry': The Apology That Isn't One
A blogger applies Kantian moral philosophy to Justin Bieber's 2015 hit 'Sorry,' arguing that the song's hook — 'Is it too late to say sorry?' — is self-refuting
Apple Deprecates hdiutil in macOS 27, and the Replacement Isn't Ready
The macOS 27 Golden Gate beta marks the command-line disk-image tool hdiutil as deprecated, steering users toward diskutil image for attach, create, resize, inf
Autolith: a self-modifying coding agent built entirely in Common Lisp
Autolith is a terminal-based programming agent that operates directly inside a Git repository, handling the usual agent chores—reading and editing files, search